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...rest of the story is Camille's, a chronicle of her ascendancy. She becomes a singer, or more accurately a star. Truffaut, who co-wrote the screenplay from Henry Farrell's novel, stresses her lack of morality. She kills and seduces with equal emotionlessness, even as she verbally seduces the naive sociologist. His complete trust, which becomes a more telling kind of hypnotism, is rewarded by betrayal. The act is in part a reemphasis of the insidiousness of her charm, for in framing Stanislas for a murder she committed (her fourth, with attempts at five and six also during...
Still those sex scenes are beautiful. All Bertolucci needs is a tough producer and a good screenplay. And I think we should be charitable to the woman who helped make his inevitable commercial success possible -- Miss Pauline Kael. It's clear that the glittering combination of a favorite director and Marlon Brando overcame, in her eyes, the poor acting and pretentiousness (which Kael usually hits on). The film seems to have struck her where she often seems to think: right between her legs. The orgasmic New Yorker outpouring remains, alas, far more intriguing than what the filmmakers have spewed forth...
...Screenplay by DAVID GREENE and JOHN-MICHAEL TEBELAK...
Still, the blame for turning the viewer's idle mind into a devil's workshop of speculation is not entirely Greene's. The author of the original hit play, John-Michael Tebelak, collaborated with him on a screenplay that finds no equivalent in hippie jargon for the exalted language of the Bible. Instead it offers, among other conceits, the Lazarus legend climaxed with a pie in the face. Stephen Schwartz's score is perfectly suited to this level of imitation rock. "God save the people . . ./ Save the people from despair," one of Schwartz's lyrics...
...Screenplay by TERENCE RATTIGAN...